by Ann Beach | Nov 14, 2025 | Medicine
We’ve always heard that dogs have a much better sense of smell than us humans do. After all, there are convict-sniffing bloodhounds, bomb-sniffing dogs, drug-sniffing dogs, even cancer-sniffing dogs. Scientists have trained canines to sniff out lung, breast, ovarian,...
by Ann Beach | Nov 1, 2025 | Medicine
You’re getting one last Halloween post, because, of course, we haven’t talked about bats! Bats are the second largest order of mammals after rodents, and the only mammal capable of true flight. There are 1,500 species of bats, and they range in size from a 5-inch...
by Ann Beach | Oct 31, 2025 | Medicine
Happy Halloween. It’s one of my favorite holidays (skeletons, blood, walking dead- what’s not to like?). I’ve been thinking a lot about vampires, and how the vampire myth originated. As a refresher, vampires are creatures that prey on humans and drink their blood....
by Ann Beach | Oct 23, 2025 | Medicine
Did you enjoy learning about the Gila monster last week? I’m still in a Halloween mood. Let’s talk about spiders. First, I must confess I love spiders. They are such wonderful engineers. Did you know that, as they are spinning their web threads, they can modify the...
by Ann Beach | Oct 16, 2025 | Medicine
Halloween is coming! Let’s talk about monsters. Everyone’s heard about the amazing new GLP-1 weight loss drugs Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and others. But did you know there’s a monster involved? Before we go further, a little refresher is needed. These drugs were...
by Ann Beach | Oct 2, 2025 | Medicine
It’s football season, and in the South, there is no other topic this time of year! American gridiron football evolved from soccer and rugby and was first played in 1869, in a game between Princeton and Rutgers. By the 1890s it had become a game we would easily...
